Holder for photographs.



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HOLDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

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ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOB PHOTOGRAPHS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Jan. 9, 1%.7.

Application filed February 24, 1916. Serial No. 80,232.

holder and mount. for what are lmown as life motion photographs, that iswhere a picture is taken in three or more positions and gives the effectof motion when used in connection with a screen member.

The present invention is for the purpose of providing a holder orreceptacle for these life motion photographs so that the photographerwhether amateur or professional, will not be under the necessity ofmaking up a holder or indeed of dcmg anything more than to take the lifemotion photograph, the holders being so cheaply made as to permit themto be bought anywhere so that the photographer need only take thepictures and then apply them to the holders which may be kept in stock.

The pictures are taken in at least three positions, and the movingeffect is secured by utilizing a screen which is placed in such relationto the photograph that when motion is given the screen an illusion ofmotion in the photographed face or body follows, the screen being.composed of lines which, moving over the photograph, conceals certainportions thereof and exposes other portions and thus gives the motioneffect.

In carrying out my invention I use a blank of pasteboard with a doubleor turned back end, preferably the right hand end, having scorings so asto be movable after the manner of a hinge, the scored section carrying aflap which in turn carries the screen member made preferably ofcelluloid; The margins of the side walls of the blank are foldedinwardly and a-cover sheet with a central opening is applied to thecardboard base and the screen member covers the openmaterial is appliedto hold it in place and afterward the projecting end of the card is cutofi leaving the completed article.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows a plan view of the blankforming the back part of the holder; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the coverportion of the holder; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the blank of Fig.1 partly folded; Fig. 4 shows the blank of Fig. 1 folded and with thescreen member attached ready to receive the cover member;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of thearticle complete; Fig. 6isa view of the holder with the picture member in place.

In these drawings a blank (1 is utilized, as shown in Fig. 1, having itsmargins b, b, folded in as in Figs. 3 and 4, forming a guideway or spacebetween. The right hand end of the blank, shown at d, has a doublescoring so as to give a hinge action and this hinged end has a tab orflap 0, scored at its point of connection with the part d. To the underside of this flap 0 the screen member f is pasted, as shown in Fig. 4,this having parallel opaque lines with intervening clear spaces. Thephotographic card containing the series of positions of the person whosepicture has been taken is shown at g and has the picture at one end witha blank space shown at g. A cover sheet I). is fastened to the foldedside strips 6, and this cover sheet has a central opening 21 throughwhich the screen shows. After the picture has been taken in three ormore positions and developed in the usual way, the card which carriesthe picture is slipped into the open end of the holder and is properlypasted in relation to the screen, after which adhesive sealed in placein proper position relative to the screen, and as the screen is carriedby the flap, a hingelike or pivotal movement of the part (1 of said flapmoves the screen in relation to the picture and gives the effect ofmotion.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a holder consisting of a base havingits margins on opposite sides thereof folded inwardly and, upon the mainportion of the base, a flap connected with the base at one end thereof,and a cover member having an opening and overlying the folded in marginsof the base and attached thereto and leaving an opening at the end ofthe base opposite that at which the flap is located, and between thesaid base and the cover member, said opening lying between the folded inmargins and adapted to receive a card bearing the composite picture, anda screen 10- cat-ed in the space between the cover and the base andbetween the margins ofthe base, and being connected with the flap, saidflap being movable to displace the screen carried thereby in relation tothe picture member when inserted into said space through said openingfor producing a motion picture efiect, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a holder for receiving anddisplaying composite picture cards to produce motion picture eflectsconsisting of a base, a cover attached .thereto, and spaced aparttherefrom and thereby providing a space for the reception of a compositepicture card, a movable screen member in said space wlth means forrec1procating the same at 'one'end of theholder,

cover for the insertion of the composite picture card into said space,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature 30 in presence of twowitnesses.

ALEXANDER S. SPIEGEL.

lVitnesses MARGARET E. MoKAY, A. R. CAMP.

